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Sub-boards: Transient Alerts

The Orrery- Your 4-Dimensional Guide to Space-Time pinned - Arrell - 10/6/2026 5:37:14 PM

Another milestone for Voyager 1: one light day away. - podrock - 11/3/2026 2:41:45 PM

Fewer Transient Alerts coming - BuckGalaxy - 11/2/2026 5:48:03 PM

A new Dwarf Planet? - Arrell - 10/30/2026 12:49:08 AM
- Hmmm - BuckGalaxy - 10/30/2026 1:17:08 AM

John Wheeler's philosophy: "Beyond the Black Hole" - RL - 10/17/2025 5:00:27 AM
- Posted a year ago, bumping it back up to top (n/t) - Arrell - 10/19/2026 12:17:10 AM
  - I've noticed the bump works. - podrock - 10/24/2026 10:29:21 PM
    - The bump - Arrell - 10/30/2026 12:52:43 AM
- To paraphrase an analogy - RL - 10/18/2025 12:53:47 AM
  - The way I see it... - podrock - 10/18/2025 4:36:41 AM
    - No...it much more fundamental than that... - RL - 10/18/2025 5:08:08 PM
      - Correction, the delayed choice experiment has been done on larger scales than a lab - RL - 10/19/2025 3:26:34 PM
- Note added - RL - 10/17/2025 3:38:18 PM

Interesting startup working on Fusion Propulsion - Arrell - 10/29/2026 7:56:36 PM

Mars Images - Arrell - 10/25/2026 11:15:39 PM
- Awesome - BuckGalaxy - 10/26/2026 2:27:16 AM
- re: Mars Images - Arrell - 10/25/2026 11:17:14 PM

NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue - BuckGalaxy - 10/24/2026 8:53:43 PM
- IMO the Blue Origin architecture is more likely to succeed than the SpaceX one. - BuckGalaxy - 10/24/2026 9:01:02 PM

NASA Shows Renewed Interest in Lunar Lava Tubes - BuckGalaxy - 10/23/2026 2:09:08 AM

JAXA MMX on the way - BuckGalaxy - 10/20/2026 4:12:30 AM

Lots of CME heading at us!! (n/t) - Arrell - 10/10/2026 6:00:13 PM
- I blame everything on on solar storms. (n/t) - podrock - 10/18/2026 2:35:28 AM

EXTREME geomagnetic storm (G5) forecast: CME at 844 km/s heading for Earth, due 2026-10-12 00:43 UTC - NASA DONKI - 10/10/2026 10:09:47 PM
- Looks like it wasnt headed to earth after all (n/t) - Arrell - 10/11/2026 12:03:47 AM

New Artimus Data Released. - podrock - 10/9/2026 8:35:26 PM

Climate Tools Discontinued by This Administration - Arrell - 10/9/2026 3:09:18 PM
- I knew it was bad - BuckGalaxy - 10/9/2026 4:21:37 PM
- Over time, I hope to examine which of these it would be practical to rebuild here - Arrell - 10/9/2026 3:31:38 PM

Artemis II Science Data available - Arrell - 10/8/2026 4:12:58 PM

New feature - Arrell - 10/7/2026 9:07:51 PM

Podrock, Pebble - Arrell - 10/6/2026 8:06:29 PM
- Not in any single source that I know of. - podrock - 10/7/2026 3:28:54 AM

2026 Nobel prize in Physics-Francis Halzen, Neutrino hunter - Arrell - 10/6/2026 5:33:11 PM

Planet born around dead star - Arrell - 10/5/2026 5:28:44 PM

So- another feature I could explore - Arrell - 10/4/2026 9:07:22 PM
- I could try to set up an alert... - Arrell - 10/5/2026 3:38:39 PM
- Interesting - podrock - 10/4/2026 9:33:55 PM

Something to keep an eye on- Plague again - Arrell - 10/5/2026 12:06:07 AM
- Ear on the rail. - podrock - 10/5/2026 12:55:02 AM
  - The lab did bio warfare work in cold war (n/t) - Arrell - 10/5/2026 3:44:38 AM
  - More - Arrell - 10/5/2026 3:04:37 AM
    - 5 hospitals quarantined - Arrell - 10/5/2026 3:43:48 AM
  - My pandemic tracker idea below was just coincidence - Arrell - 10/5/2026 1:24:35 AM

Picture from my Laser Guide Star days - Arrell - 10/4/2026 7:28:17 PM

DAS - podrock - 10/4/2026 4:40:02 PM
- re: DAS - Arrell - 10/4/2026 4:42:54 PM
  - It really is. - podrock - 10/4/2026 4:49:37 PM
    - with the long baseline of intercontinental cables - Arrell - 10/4/2026 4:51:26 PM
      - Working on that - podrock - 10/4/2026 5:06:18 PM
        
        The LIGO folks have LOTS of experience filtering out similar noise from faint signals (n/t) - Arrell - 10/4/2026 5:08:32 PM

Footprints in the sand - earlier than expected on North American Continent - Arrell - 10/4/2026 3:13:10 AM
- An amazing find - podrock - 10/4/2026 3:21:05 PM
  - LOL- we weren't TRYING to kill you - Arrell - 10/4/2026 3:25:17 PM
    - LOL. Are you sure? - podrock - 10/4/2026 3:33:55 PM

The Unmanned spaceflight forum closed - Arrell - 10/4/2026 1:39:18 AM
- I used to check in there fairly often - BuckGalaxy - 10/4/2026 4:22:26 AM
- Damn. It was a good ship. (n/t) - podrock - 10/4/2026 2:39:15 AM

Consolidated space and science in order to incorporate archives - Arrell - 10/3/2026 9:40:17 PM
- This has been a question to me for a while - BuckGalaxy - 10/3/2026 11:41:52 PM
  - well, that is why I combined the two so I could cleanly add the archives - Arrell - 10/3/2026 11:46:27 PM
    - re: well, that is why I combined the two so I could cleanly add the archives - BuckGalaxy - 10/3/2026 11:49:26 PM
      - Feel free to suggest changes and improvements - Arrell - 10/3/2026 11:51:07 PM
        
        As you know by now, my feeling is the fewer boards the better. And, if you don't mind, I am going to explore the length of the subject line. Just how long can I hold forth here? Because I can hold.... (n/t) - podrock - 10/4/2026 2:43:26 AM

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